The relationship among highway geometrics, traffic-related elements and motor-vehicle accident frequencies
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...Previous research has suggested that as the percentage of trucks increases in relationship to cars, the frequencies of vehicle overtaking and lane changing decrease ( Miaou 1994 ), reducing risk taking and thus accidents....
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...Miaou (1994) studied the relationship between highway geometrics and accidents using negative binomial regression....
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...This assump tion is also supported by the Shankar, Mannering and Barfield (1995) study that found an increase in overturn accidents as tangent length increased....
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...Shankar, Mannering, and Barfield (1995) used both the Poisson and negative binomial distributions (Poisson when the data were not significantly over dispersed and negative binomial when they were) to evaluate the ef fects of roadway geometrics and environmental factors on rural accident frequency in Washington State....
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...Poch and Mannering (1996) developed a model to identify the most sig nificant traffic and geometric elements determining accident frequencies at intersections....
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...A follow-up study was completed by Miaou and Lum (1993) ....
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...Recent work has compared zero-inflated Poisson and zero-inflated negative binomial regression models in the context of overdispersed accident data ( Shankar, Milton & Mannering 1997 )....
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